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- Globetrotter: with Poirier, Fwonte, and Face-T
  
  Posted at 12:30 pm by Gelene Celis, on June 6, 2016
  I’m a huge Poirier (Montreal, Quebec) and Fwonte (Port-au-Prince, Haiti based in Montreal, Quebec) fan so…
  
  he’s so shy though
  
  They played some of my favourite tunes
  
  Jokma (Poirier ft. Mr. OK)
  
  Here’s the original track
  
  and they also played Trafik (Fwonte)
  
  Here’s the original track
  
  Loved the setup too.
  
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  Here’s a great talk in Montreal by Poirier, “Play: It’s a Serious Thing”
  
  Check out Poirier’s site here
  And his Soundcloud here
  
  Check out Fwonte’s Soundcloud here
  And his Bandcamp here
  
  Check out Face-T’s Facebook here
  
  Check out The Round Venue’s site here
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- 6ixsaem | Isaĕm | XIII
  
  Posted at 1:11 pm by Gelene Celis, on December 28, 2015
  …originally from France, based in Toronto, ON.
  
  Stay humble and work hard.
  
  Life ⏳
  
  We are the power 📣
  
  130016
  
  Snowy night ❄
  
  La haine 💥
  
  Cold shots ❄❄
  
  Christmas eve 🎄
  
  Wanted 🚨
  
  Wanted to celebrate my 416 followers with that picture to show my gratitude for the opportunies that the city offers and to the people that support me and my art. God bless you guys! 👊
  
  On the road to glory 🆓
  
  Blessed for another year on earth, be grateful for what you have… God bless you guys 😇
  
  Don’t play too much with fire 🌋
  
  Hard work is key 💯
  
  A night in Chinatown
  
  God Bless Toronto
  
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  I compared his work to Brassaï, as the sensibility is very similar, to which he responded, “Oh cool! Is he on Instagram?”
  lols
  “No no he’s one of those academic, dead ones from like the 20’s or something.”
  Jokes.
  
  I would write more about him but he’s trying to stay anonymous so no dice, folks. Sorry.
  And I know his photos look like it was shot on film, but he’s actually using a DSLR.
  
  Check out 6ixsaem’s Instagram here
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- Lip Photography
  
  Posted at 7:35 am by Gelene Celis, on August 10, 2015
  by Leann Parker (Toronto, ON)
  
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  Worked with her in an ad agency.
  
  Check out her blogspot here
  And her site here
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- The Aga Khan Museum
  
  Posted at 1:07 pm by Gelene Celis, on June 24, 2015
  …is a museum of Islamic art, Iranian art, and Muslim culture.
  …also North America’s first Islamic Museum right here in Toronto, ON
  
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  There were pieces from Sicily and Spain though, which got me confused, but then I read on and realized that European cultures had a pretty heavy influence on Middle Eastern & predominant Islamic nations. Duh.
  
  Here’s my personal favorite:
  “Said the Prophet, most glorious: Abandoning the world is more righteous than any worship.”
  
  There was a cool part on the second floor too:
  “Marvellous Creatures: Animals in Islamic Art”
  
  img courtesy of Aga Khan Museum
  
  Photos weren’t allowed on the second floor, so I don’t have anything for you, unfortunately.
  
  Check out The Aga Khan Museum’s site here
  
  They’re open on Tuesday-Sunday from 10-6. Admission is $20.
  On Wednesdays, hours are extended til 8 as admission is free from 4-8.
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- Schitz: Excavator – Coffee Beans
  
  Posted at 2:53 am by Gelene Celis, on June 7, 2015
  “Yeah, I was operating a bulldozer back home. I might do the same thing here. I love what I do. I just stand from where you operate it. You sweat so much…
  
  Some people hate it…but I love it.
  
  Back home, I’d just be in my beaters, sweating…like not too much, but just enough body heat to be kind of moist… when the sweat is like dews on your skin.
  You feel everything: you feel the warm tropical breeze, the smell of the earth, the wind… on all your senses.
  
  And the ground…it all depends on the day and the kind of job, but my favorite is the kind that’s not sticky, but not like gravel either. It’s brown, but dry enough to separate, not too moist to clump…it’s like…sandy but bigger than sand grains…like…like…
  
  Coffee beans.”
  
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  😊 ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
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- Schitz – The Bad Tape
  
  Posted at 10:18 pm by Gelene Celis, on June 6, 2015
  “I went to audition in Canadian Idol. I slept overnight in the line-up and then I woke up with a sore throat! I was crying! I called my dad. I was like, ‘Dad! They’re going to put me in the bad audition tape!’ I was crying so much…I went back home. I didn’t audition!”
  
  Wait what? What’s bad audition tape? What?
  
  “At the end of the show, they play the worst auditions in the episode! It’s like bloopers!”
  
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  He ultimately got cast a leading role in a theatre in Madrid for almost a decade though he rooted for Hollywood in the beginning.
  
  Morals of the story:
  1. Sometimes, as we walk our paths, we are shown a different direction that is better for us.
  2. Before we get to our destination, we have to fail many, many, many times… arguably, to prepare us better for where we’re actually headed before we even know, ourselves, where that is.
  
  I don’t really care much about these things but since he’s my friend, I told him he should’ve gone to the audition anyway so I can watch it for my own entertainment… but yeah, no, had I been in his place, I would’ve done the exact same thing.
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- Jaash Singh
  
  Posted at 7:10 pm by Gelene Celis, on December 3, 2014
  …is a darbouka player in Lemon Bucket Orkestra based in Toronto, ON.
  
  captured by Carlos M Gárate
  
  captured by Carlos M Gárate
  
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  Was roomies with him at one point. I’d wake up to folk music and instruments playing sometimes.
  
  Check out the Lemon Bucket Orkestra’s site here
  And their Youtube here
  And their Bandcamp here
  And their Twitter here
  
  Check out Carlos M Gárate’s Flickr here
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- Hadrien Star
  
  Posted at 8:46 pm by Gelene Celis, on November 29, 2014
  …is a stylist based in Toronto, ON
  
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  Met him at the ad agency I used to work in.
  I was in the merch and he was a stylist. I was in the studio a lot.
  
  Check out his blog here
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  Posted in Arts & Culture | 0 Comments | Tagged carcass, deer, fashion, hadrien star, jewellery, miniature, octopus, product stylist, purse, stylist, toronto
- Monochrome by Jimmy Chiale & SoTeeOh
  
  Posted at 7:58 pm by Gelene Celis, on October 9, 2014
  …by Jimmy Chiale (from France, currently based in Toronto) and SoTeeOh (Toronto)
  
  Jimmy Chiale
  
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  I doubt he’ll remember me but I partied with him back in the day.
  
  Jimmy’s paintings are all over TO but he’s a resident artist at Tequila Bookworm.
  
  Check out Jimmy Chiale’s site here
  And his Facebook here
  And his Instagram here
  
  Check out SoTeeOh’s site here
  And his Instagram here
  
  And here’s another one of SoTeeOh’s directed music videos:
  
  ELMNT – Body Movin (Directed by SoTeeOh) from ELMNT on Vimeo.
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- Off Season
  
  Posted at 3:02 am by Gelene Celis, on January 28, 2014
  …directed by Jonathan Van Tulleken (USA) as showcased in Toronto After Dark Film Festival
  
  Off Season from Joe Randall-Cutler on Vimeo.
  
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  I went to a showing for a series of shorts that were supposed to be scary. This was shown with The Thomas Beale Cipher. It was a total of 10 films and by the end of the ninth, I was feeling pretty “Meh” in terms of being spooked out.
  
  They dropped the bomb on this one.
  
  Check out the director’s IMDB here
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  Posted in Arts & Culture | 0 Comments | Tagged europe, film, horror, london, toronto, uk
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